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→West towards Torino {{European Route Number|64}}
* [[User:Drezz|Drezz]] June, 2016: I've tried this spot to go to Torino/French Alps and it was really good and actually it’s possible to go in the other directions too - like [[Verona]], [[Venice]]. It’s a petrol station/McD near of the metro station QT8. It’s necessary to walk in Via Collecchio and cross the bridge. There is a park in the end of the bridge and you must follow the path until find a small street called Via Don Luigi Palazzolo and turn right in the road. Around 100 m further you will find the petrol station where you can ask for someone there or you can go directly to the road with a sign. I got a ride directly to [[Chamonix]] (France) and the driver was on his way to [[Geneva]]. This spot is less than 10 minutes walking from the metro station.
*[[User:Movethathoof|MovethatHoof]] tried a couple of the above spots in November 2019 and found them very unsatisfactory. The Q8 station had very limited traffic, averaging about 1 car every minute, and the staff, though sympathetic, would not allow him to ask either at the pump or even when people were going into the little convenience store. One might try right on the highway as suggested, but as is usual of Italian highways the guardrails leave little space for standing or stopping. There is at least a little entrance lane from the gas station where a very motivated driver could stop, but then Italians don't often prove themselves very motivated to pick up hitchhikers. As well, of the three lanes of traffic there, the inside lanes are where the drivers bypassing the intersection of Viale Alcide de Gasperi and Viale Renato Serra will be, probably going further, already going faster, and two lanes from the little cranny where they might stop, if they see you in time. The gas station being disappointing as described, Movethathoof decided to try at this slip road, of the above mentioned intersection. Though there was lots of traffic, and people were actually much friendlier in passing than many other places in Italy, those that bothered to motion communicated that they were local, and it needs to be remembered that the traffic passing here can be going in any direction, further diluting your efforts. Frustrated after a few hours, he found the below service area and had a much easier time.
==== Area Servizio Pero Nord ====
Getting to a service area on the Autostada is very simple. One takes the Metro Line 1 to Pero station (direction Rho Fiera Milano: trains on Line 1 alternate destinations between Rho Fiera Milano and Bisceglie, which is to the southwest), and then walking southwest on the little pedestrian street onto which the station exits (Via Mario Greppi) you turn right on Via Oratorio. Follow it to the end where to your left there will be a roundabout, and then take the first right when entering the roundabout onto Via Papa Giovanni XXIII. You'll see a water tower of sorts in the distance, which is to where you walk. Just below and beside the tower, on your right, there will be a little paved walkway which is a pedestrian and bike trail over the highway. You'll see the service area to your left as you're crossing the highway. Follow the trail as it continues just below the station's fence and shortly you'll find a revolving metal door that provides easy pedestrian access, and then you're in! A map of this route can be found [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yBP-giXHtgj3lCH7x0XUXrFzK4fhCx41&usp=sharing here]; it takes around 20 minutes walking.
It is not the busiest of all service areas, but there is a steady flow of traffic; many trucks stop here for their pausa, and many take the turn right after the station onto the {{Ait|50}} on their way to Switzerland. [[User:Movethathoof|MovethatHoof]] found a ride to Turin here within twenty minutes of asking cars that stopped.
=== North towards Como,[[Switzerland]] {{Ait|8}} {{Ait|9}} ===
